Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), April 2023

by: dasickis
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Sarama | Bioacoustics Engineer | REMOTE (anywhere)<p>We&#x27;re developing a vocal language between dogs &amp; people using ML to analyze barks to decipher which ones convey meaning. We&#x27;ve spent the last few years understanding how to iterate on interspecies communication. We&#x27;re looking for someone who deeply understands audio data and a huge plus if you&#x27;ve done work with non-human audio datasets.<p>Working on a new app design and new features to improve adding barks to our corpus.<p>praful@sarama.app

by: jplehmann
text: MorphMarket.com | Senior React Developer | Remote | Full-time | Contract | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morphmarket.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.morphmarket.com</a><p>I&#x27;m the founder of MorphMarket.com. We are an online marketplace that connects breeders and keepers of lizards, geckos, snakes, frogs, spiders and other captive-bred pets. Launched in 2015, we are the largest reptile-related website in the world with about 5,000 active sellers. Our users passionately love the least loved animals.<p>We are seeking to add another experienced React front-end developer to our fully remote team.<p>Our reptile site is implemented in Python, of course. We use a Django&#x2F;Postgres&#x2F;Redis backend and new frontend development is in React&#x2F;Typescript.  Our legacy pages use JQuery&#x2F;Bootstrap. As a FE dev, you could think of yourself as a Python handler. :)~<p>You can see some of our recent work in this demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nz05fICRnNI">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nz05fICRnNI</a><p>Key skills: React, Javascript, SCSS, Bootstrap, JQuery. Good knowledge of flexbox, debugging, browser caching, performance profiling, web performance fundamentals. Pragmatic: ability to balance quality and speed. Nice to have: Typescript, React Native, AWS Services, webpack.<p>There are about 10 people on our product team. We collaborate with Github and Slack. Our business has done well even through the ups and downs of the economy. We are committed to a positive culture for the dev team.<p>This is a full-time, long-term engagement. Most working hours should be during US timezones.<p>Please contact us at jobs@morphmarket.com with a statement of interest, relevant qualifications&#x2F;experience, and billing rate. Thanks!

by: uplift_ltd
text: Boulder, CO | Remote | US Time Zone<p>At Uplift, we’re on a mission to perfect our work life while learning, building, and enjoying our free time. We&#x27;re looking for well rounded software engineers to join our team. Contract or contract-to-hire, open to employment too. Many more details on our website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers</a><p>1. Mid&#x2F;senior experience in at least 2 of these:<p>* React&#x2F;React Native<p>* Django (python)<p>* GraphQL (Django &amp; React+Apollo)<p>Usually start part time &amp; ramp up.<p>Bonus for all positions:<p>* Freelance experience: delivered projects, managed budget&#x2F;estimate, worked with non-technical clients (most important)<p>* Heroku or AWS<p>* Laravel&#x2F;MVC framework in PHP, PHPUnit<p>* Thrift<p>* Excellent CSS skills<p>* Native iOS&#x2F;Android<p>* SQL experience<p>* Can think critically, build from rough specs (no designs or detailed specs)<p>One of our core values is continuous learning: within the industry &amp; from each other. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. If you&#x27;re self-sufficient, passionate &amp; a good communicator, apply now!<p>Web designers can check out our site for details.<p>#### To apply:<p>You have at least 20 hours per week available, and are located in a US timezone.<p>Visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a>, select a position, and follow the instructions.

by: tonytrill
text: Remote - Fabius Labs.<p>We are a small full product agency that helps our clients solve their problem. We do product ideation, scoping, design, development, and data science.<p>We are in search of someone to assist on a project by project basis.<p>Project: We are building a web app for a client. The project is a GIS front end for users to interact with a map and gain insights about particular locations demographics, census data, etc.<p>Technologies: NextJS (React) + Supabase + ArcGIS JS SDK<p>Please see the link below to apply<p>Job Description: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fabiuslabs.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;senior-react-developer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fabiuslabs.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;senior-react-developer</a>
Website: fabiuslabs.com

by: scrollaway
text: Worldwide | Remote<p>Looking for an experienced full-stack engineer to help get a mostly-built bookkeeping app from prototype to released MVP. Backend: Django, Postgres. Frontend: NextJS, typescript, tailwind.<p>You will inherit a good quality codebase and be actively working with at least one other experienced developer familiar with the project. Knowledge of bookkeeping is appreciated but not required. Fixed price quote on deliverables. Send an email to b64decode(&quot;am9icw==&quot;)@goveni.eu with cv, github profile, and rate.

by: rishabh16
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>ROAS Expert (roasexpert.com) | 100% Remote | Flexible Part-time | Interns or Contractors
ROAS Expert is a startup-friendly growth marketing agency for fast-scaling DTC &amp; SaaS brands.<p>We&#x27;re looking to hire for International Business Development position. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wellfound.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;roas-expert&#x2F;jobs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wellfound.com&#x2F;company&#x2F;roas-expert&#x2F;jobs</a><p>Contact: careers@roasexpert.com and mention this post on HN.

by: pul
text: DNS content writer<p>Location: Remote &amp; async<p>Email: hello@nslookup.io<p>Pay: $100 per article<p>---<p>I&#x27;m looking for someone to write articles for <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nslookup.io&#x2F;learning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nslookup.io&#x2F;learning&#x2F;</a>. You&#x27;ll need to have hands-on experience working with the DNS. Read a couple of articles to get an idea for the level of expertise needed. I&#x27;ll prepare briefs with the outline of the article. Get in touch for more info.

by: SnowLprd
text: Remote<p>We seek experienced Django engineers to add new features to our product, which allows people to replace expensive SaaS tools with tap-to-install open-source applications. Lower costs, better privacy!<p>Tools&#x2F;technologies:<p>* Django + PostgreSQL (required)<p>* HTMX and&#x2F;or JS (preferred)<p>* Tailwind CSS (preferred)<p>We are looking for folks with about 20 hours&#x2F;week of availability.<p>For more information, reach out to: entroP at gmail

by: tikkun
text: SEEKING FREELANCER(S) - Remote - AI Product Lab Roles<p>We&#x27;re a small AI product lab seeking talented freelancers who:<p>* Have good &quot;problem taste&quot; &#x2F; enjoy figuring out what&#x27;s worth working on<p>* Have big visions while focusing on the small details<p>* Persistently work hard and take lots of action<p>* Overflow with ideas and value autonomy<p>* Dislike senseless rules<p>Roles:<p>1. Generalist&#x2F;Back-End Engineer&#x2F;Prompt Engineer Hybrid: Build AI tools that help people automate work and delegate tasks to GPT. Multiple openings for this role. The roles are solo instead of team based.<p>2. Smart Generalist Researcher: Conduct research on the AI landscape, envision the future, and write insightful articles like the ones found on <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epochai.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;trends-in-the-dollar-training-cost-of-machine-learning-systems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;epochai.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;trends-in-the-dollar-training-cost-...</a>.<p>3. Reviewer and Writer and&#x2F;or Video Creator: Test, review, and create content on AI tools, developer tools, and products, similar to the style of Wirecutter.<p>4. AI Research Science and ML Engineering Tutorial Creator: Develop comprehensive tutorials for AI Research and ML Engineering akin to Rails Tutorial and Ruby Koans.<p>5. Product-minded engineer. Build things that are easy to use and solve users underlying needs.<p>6. Create your own role.<p>To apply, email clay@studionumberzero.com with &quot;HN&quot; in the subject. Make the email 6 bullet points or fewer, include 2 links (the links should be live URLs to use&#x2F;see the thing, or if not, include screenshots&#x2F;a demo video, github links are optional but don&#x27;t make them the only link unless your readme shows the end-user experience) of projects where you were the solo&#x2F;primary creator.<p>If hired, you’ll be initially given a project vision, then the same day or next day you’ll run some possibilities of what it could concretely look like by me, then the same day or next day you’ll start on the building. Shipping 1-2x a day and sending me an email containing a screenshot&#x2F;demo, hours worked so far, and a 1-2 bullet points about plan for the next block. Self-directed, you’ll be deciding what to work on and how to do it in a way that is useful for end-users.<p>P.S. You will be provided GPT-4 API access and GPT-4 playground access and will be encouraged to use it to help with building, ideas, and reasoning&#x2F;planning.